The effectiveness of an informational seminar on occupational health

The aim of this research was to evaluate the effectiveness of an information seminar concerning health at work, as an in-work training procedure. A quasi-experimental before-and-after study was conducted through a 20-question survey on health at work. This questionnaire was administered before and after the seminar. Quantitative changes were evaluated through frequency indicators and the statistical significance of the changes was established through the chi-squared and Student's t tests and one-way two-tailed ANOVA. Primary care in Castilla y León. A three-and-a-half hour long information seminar, with 102 primary care professionals--doctors, pharmacists, vets and nurses--was held. Results showed an improvement in the complex of training-information areas used as criteria to evaluate the acquisition of knowledge on health at work. The greatest positive change (36%) was found for matters relating to general principles of health at work for risk factors, and for work-connected pathologies. The information seminar is proposed as a procedure to use in on-going training of primary care health professionals.